By: Honas

Honas — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 20:58:26 +0000

I know this is an older story, but I’ve just discovered the Guardian, and enjoy it thus far. Rep Barrett is correct on a few points, not so correct, in my opinion on others. I do fully agree that the next batch of elected official do need a CAT scan, and quite possibly a lobotomy. But truly who needs the CAT scan, those elected into office, or the “sheep” with blinders on who elected them in the first place? We all know who holds the majority in the Idaho “flock”, and Rep Barrett is in that majority. Being entrapped in visions of the past walks hand-in-hand this upholding the status quo. Idaho is no longer the land of the cowboys, loggers, and miners do primarily structural economic changes that HAVE occurred throughout the west. It’s time for legislators to look to the future, instead of continually protecting the natural resource rights of there bedfellows. Other stakeholders in this state have rights to those resources as well, and do far less to deplete them. Taking a backwards legislative approach for the past 20 years, requires or necessitates the additional financing (GARVEE) required to update a transportation system that has taken a back seat to concerns of where someone’s “pal” will graze their “mo-moo’s”, or if farmer Bob will have enough water to plant his exorbitant amount potatoes, to further drive market prices down (over supply the market), so Bob can again dominate the welfare category (although most conservatives call them subsidies, but lets call a “spade” a “spade”). One-side politics in Idaho seems to be, in my opinion, more of the “cause” of our current “evils”, than any poor hostage crisis that occurred at the end of Capital Blvd. this spring. By the way, I’m very curious of what the inflation rate would be WITHOUT monetary policy from the Federal Reserve and their head guru Greenspan, and where exactly Rep. Barrett proposes we get enough gold to back US currency in circulation today…Your CAT Scan is ready…Bring your friends.

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By: Honas